diff --git a/packages/google-cloud-python-speech/docs/conf.py b/packages/google-cloud-python-speech/docs/conf.py
index 5e0a718b27c1..ae871c42c3ff 100644
--- a/packages/google-cloud-python-speech/docs/conf.py
+++ b/packages/google-cloud-python-speech/docs/conf.py
@@ -80,9 +80,9 @@
 master_doc = "index"
 
 # General information about the project.
-project = u"google-cloud-speech"
-copyright = u"2019, Google"
-author = u"Google APIs"
+project = "google-cloud-speech"
+copyright = "2019, Google"
+author = "Google APIs"
 
 # The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for
 # |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@
     (
         master_doc,
         "google-cloud-speech.tex",
-        u"google-cloud-speech Documentation",
+        "google-cloud-speech Documentation",
         author,
         "manual",
     )
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@
     (
         master_doc,
         "google-cloud-speech",
-        u"google-cloud-speech Documentation",
+        "google-cloud-speech Documentation",
         [author],
         1,
     )
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@
     (
         master_doc,
         "google-cloud-speech",
-        u"google-cloud-speech Documentation",
+        "google-cloud-speech Documentation",
         author,
         "google-cloud-speech",
         "google-cloud-speech Library",